CEO Marc Benioff said Salesforce is providing $27 million to schools this year, as well as $13 million to multiple Bay Area law enforcement agencies to support security operations during the conference.
Construction has wrapped up on a project at 10th Street in Oakland's Chinatown, aiming to make it safer for kids walking and biking to school, part of the city's Safe Routes to School program.
Students returned to in-person classes Monday at Archbishop Riordan High School after a tuberculosis outbreak forced the return of some pandemic protocols. There are now at least 6 active cases and more than 200 latent cases, meaning they're infected but not sick or contagious.
The first San Francisco teachers' strike in 47 years, which has closed schools for days, is ending as SFUSD and the teachers union reached a tentative $183 million deal early Friday morning.
Issues surrounding budgets and financing have gotten progressively worse for school districts throughout the Bay Area and the state. In the South Bay, the San Jose Unified School District's board held a meeting to discuss the potential closure of over half a dozen schools.
"Right now I'm not trying to spend on anything because I don't know for how long I have to stretch what I have," said Aurora Hernandez, a preschool teacher with SFUSD.